UK

Farmland hindered as asset class
- Professional Pensions
- 16 Mar 2012
The £35bn BT Pension Scheme is seeking to replace its commodity future exposure with investment in agricultural land
Land-grabbing claims complicate agricultural investment, says BT scheme
- IPE
- 09 Mar 2012
The BT Pension Scheme has acknowledged that investing in agriculture land was a "real challenge" due to concerns over accusations of land grabbing.
Australia is the great foreign-owned land as more NSW farms being sold overseas
- Daily Telegraph
- 26 February 2012
Foreign companies from Korea, Qatar, US, UK and China are "secretly" buying up large chunks of NSW farmland by establishing shelf companies, trust funds, and extended settlements to avoid scrutiny.
PPF to set up farmland and timberland panel
- Professional Pensions
- 06 February 2012
The £9bn Pension Protection Fund is set to add specialist farmland and timberland fund managers to its investment manager panel to assist its alternative investment programme.
Funds focus on farming fortunes
- Financial News
- 06 February 2012
Farming is a sector that Insight Investment, a UK asset manager best known for its expertise in investing in corporate bonds and government debt, has begun to target.
UK land price surge drives out funds, foreigners
- Agrimoney
- 30 January 2012
The extent of the surge in UK farmland prices has driven foreign buyers and pension funds to the sidelines, leaving farmers to pay prices more than double those three years ago, property consultancy Savills said.
Miro Forestry lease agreement with the Yoni Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
- Miro Forestry
- 29 December 2011
Fifty year lease agreement for 20,980 ha signed between Miro Forestry (SL) Limited and representatives of the Yoni Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone in December 2011.
Alpcot Agro to acquire Landkom International
- World-Grain.com
- 20 December 2011
With the merger, Alpcot Agro now controls well over 250,000 hectares of farmland in Russia and the Ukraine.
Reap what you sow: Why there's money in farmland
- IFA Online
- 15 December 2011
Tony Hales, managing director of Stadia Trustees, puts forward the case for including farmland in clients’ self-invested personal pensions (UK)
Tanzania tries to get to grips with land grabs
- Irish Times
- 09 December 2011
“Zuia uporaji wa ardhi,” reads the Swahili headline of a poster on the wall of the community building in Mhaga, a densely populated village in Kisarawe, a district 100km southwest of Dar es Salaam. It means “prevent land grabbing”
British combing for cotton
- The Land
- 05 December 2011
UK-based investors are planning a $400 million rural land fund to buy cotton and wheat properties in eastern Australia.
Agriculture investment: Solid ground for unstable times
- CNBC
- 08 November 2011
As the global financial downturn pushes investors into finding alternative business ventures, land investment has become an attractive proposition.